A Dolores library board review and a regional food summit highlight key issues in southwest Colorado, from governance concerns to food insecurity.

The recent transition between school superintendents in the Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 district was somewhat rocky, according to an email sent by board president Josh Shumway to the entire board and read aloud at its April 21 meeting.

The Mesa Verde Writers Conference will take place in September this year after organizers cited summer crowds and heat in southwest Colorado.

Montezuma County is moving ahead with efforts to clean up the county through clean-up days and a possible ordinance about trash.

The Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 school board voted to end ties with ERBOCES and CLAS, continuing governance changes under its new majority.

The Montezuma-Cortez Re-1 school district is cutting ties with a highly controversial attorney who has worked for the district for the past four years.

A Colorado State Patrol trooper used what’s called a tactical vehicle intervention, or TVI, on April 8 east of Cortez to halt a Jeep Gladiator traveling the wrong way along Highway 160.

The weather, wildfire, and water outlook for the months ahead drew concerned comments from the Montezuma County commissioners at their meeting Tuesday.

Passage of a measure overturning a mining ban in a Minnesota wilderness area is raising concerns among environmentalists about its possible ramifications for the Four Corners. And the ongoing drought in the Four Corners is affecting conditions at a popular tourist attraction.

March madness is a good description for last month’s climate in Cortez, according to longtime local weather observer Jim Andrus.